I was gifted an unopened pack of 3.5" floppy disks. What should I do with them? (wrong answers only)

1. Pick some friends that you like
2. Download "I Am Never Going To Give You Up" by Rick Roll
3. Put the song on the disk in very low quality .mp3
4. Give the disks away as "fun, retro" drink coasters
5. Watch as they use the coasters, unaware that you Rick Rollered them

Label in sharpie as "Bitcoin password" and superglue to the sidewalk in a busy area. Watch people try to pick up.

Dude. RAID.

Click on them to save your files.

Download a car

Label one “Important Documents” and then attach it to your refrigerator door using a fridge magnet

Sell them as 3D printed save icons.

Carry one in your pocket so you can whip it out in a threatening gesture... like in the film hackers

Get a few suitcases at Goodwill or something, stick a floppy and some 'redacted' papers in a red envelope, leave them in random places around town and observe what happens. Make sure to wear a trench coat and sunglasses when you 'forget' them at each drop point.

Thank them for the retro-themed coaster set

Contact TDK about extending that limited lifetime warranty.

Whatever you do, as soon as you crack it open get your nose right up there and inhale deeply.

Combine them into a blazing fast 14.4 MB RAID 0.

Floppy disks are a way to install linux on your microwave try a distro like arch linux it's microwave safe

Load virus on to banking system to embezzle fraction of cents on each financial operation.

Put all your precious documents on the disks and then rub a magnet on each one of them to make sure they are properly energized. The stronger the magnet the better.

Write your own copy of Windows 10, minus the bloat. You'll probably have 2 floppies left

With those in hand, start waving them around maniacally and shout "WHY IS IT CALLED A FLOPPY IF IT'S SO DAMN HARD!?"

Start a porn collection of high quality pictures. Be sure to zip span them across all disks… all 1 photo

Hand them to zoomers as 3d printed save buttons

USS Enterprise

Split up something like Puppy or Damn Small Linux across them all.

Build a PC with 15-20 floppy drives and insert and mount them all.

Boot Linux off of all the floppies.

Put a 240p rick and roll video inside and write cryptic labels on them. Spread them around the city and rest knowing that someone is going to go through hoops only to get Rick rolled.

Pirate Windows 95

Several years ago, I found a 3.5" floppy in an old desk, so I wrote "(My company's product) Production backup - DO NOT LOSE" on the label, and then left it on the floor in a main hallway of our office.

In my mind, it hopefully made a few people chuckle, but my real dream was that someone picked it up and tried to return it to the development team.

1. Register you product for warranty on the company website.

World's best swap drive.

Lan party coasters

When Windows 95 was still sold on floppy, it came on 25 fucking floppies in the box.

So I say put Windows 38 on them.

Sell them to someone who will test and resell them to the airline or medical industry... Manufacturing is a likely customer as well, plenty of legacy equipment there that's airgapped and still running decades-old hw/sw.

Youtube warning, some Boeing 747s

Recent BBC article

(This is a wrong answer since you only have a single pack. If you had several cases, you might actually be able to make a buck)

Coasters for a DnD night!

THEY BELONG IN A MUSEUM!!!

You could use them as a memory card for ps1 games.

Press them to make a real world save point.

Cyberpunk chainmail breastplate

open it in a non-destructive manner, switch every read/write lock slider, put it back together.

You mean 3.5" drink coasters?

Unwrap them and open it and then put them all back so they look used. Write on the box in sharpie "Backups 1/127". Delete the critical production system at your work. When someone asks where the backups are, hand them these.

see how many of them it takes to hold a single 4K image

Buy a USB floppy drive for each one and then create a RAID 0 disk array. It'll be super quick and gloriously noisy.

manually etch the bits yourself. Just use a hammer and chisel

Insert them into your urethra!

Gift them as cup coasters.

Go play a very public and dramatic round of disc golf

Anus... Right into the anus...

don't run Doom with them

Inserting your floppy is a time honored tradition. Have a few too many beers, and give it a go. You have 10 chances to succeed, it seems.

Throw them at junior sysadmins like shuriken.

Butt stuff.

Use them to make a bootleg copy of Duke Nukem to share with your friends. That's what we used to do with them lol

Run Doom on them?

It says they're high density, so use them as ammo for your rail gun

Find a way to convert them into triangle shaped disks

Fuck being incorrect. Buy an old AKAI sampler and make music from floppy disks libraries, I still do with my S-1100. Wrong answer would be to ritually burn them...don't.

TDK's revenue has been increasing steadily at least starting from 2010. When was the last time you bought a TDK product?

crunchy but old snack

Finally update device drivers in Windows the right way!

Sue the maker for false advertising. 1.44MB is clearly not High Density.

Mount nine of them on a square board so that they're all focused on a single point for a mild solar furnace.

Use the last one to look at yourself, the proud owner of a mild solar furnace.

Be wild! Copy that floppy!

Boof them. Don't think about it, just boof em.

Glue two on top of your flip flops. You now unlocked the floppy flip flops

find the most complex AI model file you can put on it

Thank Lord they come already formatted.

Print your business cards on them.

Epoxy them into coasters and sell them as save icon coasters.

Write “If found, please return to Minot AFB, ND c/o Duane” on them & scatter them in various airport restrooms across the US.

Sell them. There is a market for that.

You build your own floppotron of course

https://youtu.be/e-WakfBNHD0

Make yourself some Enterprises.

Add Nutella, enjoy?

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Copy them

https://www.tdkrfsolutions.tdk.com/support/warrant-terms

Probably not the same terms as when they made the disks, but it's their terms on limited warranty now.

Also, hand the disks to anyone asking you for your email for marketing purposes. Tell them all your information is on the disk.

Tape the other hole and format them in DD (0,72MB) format.

Put them in a mdadm raid array

Put them in a raidz2 situation

Abort, Retry, or Fail. But all at the same time.

Toast them and have them with PB&J, obviously

Use them

Disc golf

Throw them away and find a shugart compatible disk

I wonder what “limited lifetime warranty” means.

It probably means you can complain any time about a manufacturing defect, but not anything else.

Anyway, the terms should be printed somewhere on the box or in a paper inside.

Use them to do the longest en passant in the history of chess

Zork zork zork zork zork zork

link them together through the data and read-only slots to make a countdown chain.

Get them hard!

You’ll want to download and install the most up-to-date drivers. I believe this model benefits from a slight overclock too, so maybe look at purchasing a decent aftermarket cooler

Get ten USB floppy drives and set up a raid:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080117032102/http://phoenix.cc.edu:80/MegaFloppy.htm

Live action reboot of ReBoot

Stick them on a wall like an artpiece

Shuffle them like playing cards

Make little finger sandwiches out of them and have a tea party.

could make a nice, nutritious breakfast

Throw them around your office like frisbees.

Your should install Lady Sia, a game published by TDK on it

Flopp flopp flopp flooooooooopp

Store your important data on them.

Copy them

Write MP3s to them and use them to play one song in a modern car.

(I saw a video of someone playing a clip of music using a USB floppy drive)

Oh, man. This brings me back to my Amiga 500 days. So slow to load, but I loved that thing. Wish I hadn't sold it.

Zip tie them into a 2x1 rectangular box with a flip top lid. A drill may be needed.

Eat it

Attach one to a light pole with a paper that says "Government access codes"

Kind of hard to give right answers to something that time has rendered utterly useless. I guess you could sell it as an antique

Why would anyone bother making 1.4 MB diaks